Elephant Island
By Thomas Ronge | On August 8th 1914 the British barquetine Endurance left the port of Plymouth. The British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and ...
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Night shift
By Thomas Ronge | Recently, we arrived in our working area at the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands. Here we want to ...
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Tracking Tectonics and Ice
By Alessa J. Geiger & Max Zundel | With the Polarstern route change at the very beginning of our expedition, exiting the Strait of ...
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Let’s go to the Cape
By Lutz Eberlein and Peter Busch | One focus in the field of geodesy the analysis of crustal dynamics. For our work, we establish ...
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Increasing pressure
By Thomas Ronge | Pressure can be an interesting thing. Deep inside the Earth’s interior, pressure transforms ordinary carbon into glittering diamonds (45-60 kilobar). ...
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Observers aboard R/V Polarstern, a windy campaign in Drake Passage
By Gastón Kreps, Vania Carrera & Bruno Canella | Why are observers aboard R/V Polarstern? The PS97 campaign is planned to be realized in ...
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The Cape
By Thomas Ronge | The infamous Patagonian winds kept us at port for three additional days. With this delay, we left for our working ...
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Lung volume and blood levels
By Thomas Ronge | Am I fit enough to work for two or three months aboard a research vessel, operating far from civilisation and ...
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The Magic Gear
By Santiago Pineda Metz And so they days pass by, and here we are almost finishing our magical work. Fear not, I did not ...
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Planning Phase
by Thomas Ronge | While the current expedition is still at sea, everyone from our cruise is preparing to leave for Chile later this ...